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DBMS > 4D vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SiriDB vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SiriDB vs. Titan

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBOpen Source Time Series DBMSTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.hawkular.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantsiridb.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.siridb.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
Developer4D, IncCommunity supported by Red HatIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014CesbitAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release19842014201020172012
Current releasev20, April 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangCJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infoNumeric datayes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nononono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP RESTRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP APIJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoyes
Triggersyesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandraShardingShardingyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databasesimple rights management via user accountsUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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